Industry committee  I want to add that what we've also heard is that the act provides for statutory damages. In terms of the actions that would be brought forward by individuals, there's compensation for actual harm done, but there's also prescribed statutory damages that can be awarded. That is bas

Industry committee  We have done some studies but we do not have exact figures. The amount depends on the organization and the computerized systems they had to implement to make compliance automatic. We have received feedback from certain organizations which indicated that the initial costs of comp

Industry committee  Yes. For example, the U.S. has a private right of action, but it's only available to Internet service providers, not individuals. There are other jurisdictions. Australia and New Zealand have similar private rights of action, but for example, Australia talks about application for

Information & Ethics committee  To my understanding, that piece of legislation would be equal to our Privacy Act, so it wouldn't necessarily have an effect in terms of private-sector personal information collection. That order applies to government institutions in the same way our Privacy Act would, so it would

Information & Ethics committee  The order that was issued in the States applies to government organizations in terms of the privacy protections provided on the information that they collect, not the information that is collected by private sector organizations.